11th April'06 was perhaps one of the happiest days of my life. I had got a job that too with Infosys, the dream company of so many engineering graduates. As the results were declared i was ecstatic, my joy knew no bounds and i was jumping and screaming. Although it was disheartening to see some of my friends who didn't make it through, but still the joy of getting placed was quite a heady feeling. We celebrated with a dinner which included around 25 people. Afterall we had a job and that too with a reputed company.
The next company took time to come and so for a long time the few of us who were placed were seen with special admiration. With time many students from our batch got placed, some in good companies some in bit smaller ones. Some even got two jobs. The ones in infosys weren't allowed to sit for another company!! All said and done though the image of infosys had taken a beating with time and due to thier practice of mass recruitment, still it was considered among the best which came to our college. Our seniors in infosys told us about the rigours of training at infosys and how they didn't get time to unwind after exams, how they had to join within 15 days. All this made us anxious and we prayed for a breather between the exams and joining.
Today after more than 3 months of end of final sem exams, i'm still to join the company. The time we once prayed for has stretched so long that the wait has turned from anticipation to frustration.. The offer letter says that tentatively the date of joining will be intimated by month of may. A few people got it.. but a major proportion were left in the lurch. A mail from infy HR said that all will get DOJ by may end. May end came and went away without a word from the company. In june we got a reply that the joinings will be in the month of june/july. The june/july turned into july/aug which turned to aug/sept and finally into sept/oct/nov.
Right since may the company has created an uncertainity in the minds of recruits regarding the DOJ. All we ask for is a date of joining which may be in NOV or DEC, but a definite date of joining. So that i can plan my time and put it to some good use. Due to this uncertainity i couldn't join a two month foreign language course which was too expensive to be left in the middle in case joining came as per the mail from HR. IT companies have recruited so heavily from campuses that there is hardly anything left for freshers(from lesser known colleges) in off-campus recruitments.
Thus Infosys "powered by intellect, driven by values" has shown niether intellect in managing those recruited nor values by creating this confusion and robbing people of precious experience which would've helped immensely in furthering their career.
If u're a fresher recruited by infosys for 2008..get another job as an alternative in case infosys again Bites more than it can chew.....
I hope Mr. Narayan Murthy or someone higher up the ladder at infosys is reading this. I hope they do something concrete about it. In case they don't, all i can do is..again hope!!
2 comments:
well...i wonder what the HR people up there r doin...a company that has established itself so well n thats representing india to the world can display such insensitivity towards its own employees- its first customers...n yeah..is Mr Narayan Murthy really aware of it? i doubt..lest he cud av surely done somethng...believing the values he stand for..
I'v just came back from an Oracle Campus recruitment where around 30 colleges were invited.. Four went from my college and all were infy placed!! :P
Even those we interacted with( around 15 from different colleges) were all infosys placed..!! Guess all of us are getting equally desperate now..!!
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